Today was the fitting end to a good week. We were not very busy during the early part of the day, It was obvious to many that it was Friday--a lot of fogginess and sluggishness around the office. Some staff were busier than others, some more energized than others. Kim and I at the CP interns desks were in the camp of eager for the weekend. Eventually, we sat in on a exploratory call between Joe and Carmella and All Children's Hospital. They are a returning partner and have very strong opinions and ideas about what they want out of their partnership. It's commendable. Again, it's fun and reassuring to engage in a partner who is active and eager to gain from the partnership

But that all did not matter. Because it was Intern Scavenger Hunt Day.

Our Intern Scavenger Hunt popped up on our calendars without warning a week or two ago. We didn't know who organized it, the details of the event, not even who all would be there.When the time came, we had been briefed, quizzed, and pumped up by our department to do our team proud. When we got there, there were 27 total interns (which is crazy; we have probably met like 10). The teams were broken up interdepartmentally to create some new bonds. While noble, I say boo to that. I wanted to WIN, not make friends haha. Anyway, we were told we had a clue to start off, that would lead us around the stadium to all our additional clues and we were to be done or at least meet up at The Porch in Center Field at 3:30. That gave us an hour and a half.

The Porch in Center Field

That's when the sprinting happened. At this point in my life, no one could accuse me of working out too often, so this was not to my advantage. I was paired with a girl from Stadium Ops (Ali), a girl from Marketing (Jessie), and honestly a girl whose name and department I don't recall (some good the event did) [UPDATE: she's Lauren from Ticket Sales]. We were kicking butt and going fast and then it all slowed down and we could not seem t progress or find more clues. We were college educated kids all dumbfounded by simple riddles. It was mostly embarrassing and frustrating. The big twist clue was to "find the person who has the keys to the batters box". Of course, no such thing exists, so no such person exists either. This was meant to be the final clue and meant to make everyone chuckle at the intern's bewilderment. However, we managed to get it practically in the middle of our clues, which meant while we knew the joke we could not progress because we thought we needed something from someone regarding the keys. We wasted so much time and got so frustrated that a while before 3:30 we just went up to the Porch and found that we were already losers and could only place 3rd at best. We tried a little more before giving up and returning to the Porch to find out what we did wrong. Turns out, at one of the more innocuous clues we had gone to Spot A to grab the envelope for that clue, not knowing that Spot A was actually the "answer" for a separate clue altogether. That got us all thrown off and out of order.It was fun, we learned a little bit and got to be social with our coworkers, both intern and staff alike which is always awesome. It really is a fabulous group of people in the departments I deal with most closely.